Honda Center would host the Olympic volleyball competition and Long Beach would be the home to six sports should Los Angeles be awarded the 2024 Olympic Games.

The Anaheim and Long Beach sites are part of a revised venue plan by Los Angeles 2024 that expands an L.A.-concentrated scheme to emphasize four Olympic sports parks near public transportation.

The new plan also allows LA 2024 to use UCLA venues as training facilities for athletes staying in the Olympic Village on the Westwood campus. Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles would host the Olympic golf competition.

"We're very pleased to add more world-class existing venues to our fiscally responsible and innovative Games Plan for 2024,” LA 2024 chairman Casey Wasserman said. “By relying on Southern California's wealth of top sports, housing and transportation infrastructure, LA 2024 will minimize construction risk, operational struggles and costs, and can focus on providing athletes with the perfect stage to perform their best, without distraction.

"The IOC's Olympic Agenda 2020 reforms encourage cities to be sustainable, efficient and go where our existing venues are, and that is what we have done with this enhanced Games Plan. Every time we have identified an opportunity to enhance our plan in line with the principles of Olympic Agenda 2020, we have taken it. And just like the stunning Rio 2016 Games, LA 2024 will stage events that feature our scenic coastline, diverse topography and iconic landmarks, creating a vibrant backdrop for a citywide celebration that engages the community and inspires the world."

Moving volleyball from Pauley Pavilion to Honda Center was made at the suggestion of officials for FIVB, volleyball’s international governing body. The move was also an obvious choice because of Orange County’s rich volleyball history, LA 2024 officials said.

"We're thrilled to be selected as part of LA 2024's bid to bring the Olympic and Paralympic Games back to Southern California,” Honda Center president and CEO Tim Ryan said. “Over the years we've invested significant capital and worked in partnership with the city of Anaheim to assure our facility remains state of the art, and it's certainly exciting to see those efforts recognized. We believe LA 2024 is the right choice as host city and are excited to now officially be in partnership with them to bring world-class Olympic athletics back to our area.

Long Beach would become a fourth Olympic sports park, hosting team handball, triathlon, open water swimming, BMX, water polo and sailing. LA 2024 will also have sports parks in downtown Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and the South Bay around the Stub Hub Center.

“Long Beach has a long history of hosting Olympic competitions and producing local Olympians and Paralympians,” Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said. “We are proud to join the LA 2024 team and will do everything we can to support Los Angeles and the United States bid. We are committed to ensuring that the Games provide an economic benefit to our hotels, tourism and community.”

The Long Beach Arena will host team handball. The city’s downtown waterfront will be the site of open water swimming and triathlon, which will also use the Long Beach Grand Prix course. Temporary facilities will be built for water polo and BMX within the downtown Olympic sports park. Sailing competitions will take place just off the Long Beach pier, enhancing the viewing opportunities for spectators.

The International Olympic Committee will award the 2024 Games on Sept. 13, 2017 in Lima, Peru. Paris and Budapest are also bidding for the 2024 Games.

The new Los Angeles venue plan offers the IOC a direct contrast to Paris, which like Los Angeles has a large number of existing facilities but which are spread out and for the most part not clustered together.

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